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Social ad company Smartly.io sells a majority stake to Providence Equity...
TechCrunch reports: "Smartly.io, a company helping advertisers automate their campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, has sold a majority stake to Providence Equity Partners...
Report: Amazon’s Twitch Could Face $2.8 Billion Suit From Russian Media...
Forbes reports: "Rambler, a Russian media company, is planning to sue Amazon’s Twitch for allegedly and illegally broadcasting 36,000 Premier League soccer games—and has...
Regulator weighs action against Facebook over plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram,...
VentureBeat reports: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering asking a court to stop Facebook from moving ahead with plans to integrate its WhatsApp,...
TikTok Gains Global Momentum — but Also Raises Sticky Privacy Questions
Variety reports: "Bay Area rapper Saweetie didn’t intend for “My Type” to come out as a single. But when a clip of the bouncy...
Facebook, Microsoft, and others launch Deepfake Detection Challenge
VentureBeat reports: "Deepfakes, or media that takes a person in an existing image, audio recording, or video and replaces them with someone else’s likeness...
Twitter is funding research into a decentralized version of its platform
The Verge reports: "Twitter is funding a small team of researchers to build an “open and decentralized standard for social media,” with the goal...
Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing
TechCrunch reports: "According to CEO Afif Khoury, we’re in the middle of “the third wave of social” — a shift back to local interactions....
Reddit Ends 2019 With 430 Million Monthly Active Users
Variety reports: "Reddit has grown its user base by 30% year-over-year, according to new data released by the company Wednesday. The self-proclaimed front page...
Instagram finally launches 13+ age checkups
TechCrunch reports: "Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After 9 years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from...
How food media brand Chefclub reached 1 billion organic views per...
TechCrunch reports: "Chefclub hasn’t attracted a lot of headlines over the years as it has only raised $3.5 million. But it is slowly building...
